In the Sumy region, police explosives technicians destroyed a 500-kilogram Russian guided bomb.
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The press service of the Sumy region police reported this on March 15.
The police received a message on line 102 about an aircraft bomb that fell in one of the villages of the Akhtyrsky district near the border and did not explode. On the same day, a mobile group from the explosives department of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense in the Sumy region went to the scene of the incident to destroy the most dangerous enemy projectile, the report says.
It is noted that a high-explosive bomb FAB-500M62 was found in the courtyard of a private house.
The Russians have a lot of these, and recently they have been actively used to strike Ukraine, attaching a universal planning and correction module to it. – UMPC. With it, the bomb flies to a distance of several tens of kilometers from the place where it was dropped from the plane and hits some target or area,” noted Igor Chernyak, head of the explosives department of the State Administration for Non-Production of People in the Sumy region.
Chernyak noted that usually strikes from such Russian aerial bombs are not very accurate, but the 300 kg of explosives in the middle of this projectile causes significant destruction and loss of life when it explodes.
In this case, people were lucky, because after hitting the rural house, the bomb pierced its roof and walls, smelled the yard and stopped next to the utility building, the police note.
Explosive technicians neutralized the aerial bomb and transported it to a safe place, away from human homes, where they destroyed it using an overhead explosive charge by electrical detonation.
Police note the need to be extremely careful when discovering unexploded ammunition.
Remember, you cannot even touch such explosive objects! If you find shells, mines, grenades, missiles or their elements, as well as any other explosive objects, please contact the police by calling 102, the military, the State Emergency Service or local authorities, the police note.
Source: Racurs
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